DHCP client filtering

[Tobias Hoellrich]

Greetings Merlin users,

I'm used to MAC address filtering on the DHCP server from my previous pfsense router. While MAC filtering is available for wireless connections, wired connections are accepted unchecked. This setup happens to break here at my house, where a 2nd (non-Asus) dumb wireless access point is connected to the home network and all wireless clients connecting to it, bypass the Asus' wireless MAC filter.

I was wondering if I can (ab)use the statically assigned DHCP addresses to get around this limitation. I create a master list of all devices connected via wired/wireless connection. I start assigning all devices IP-address in a consecutive range and add them to the list of static DHCP IP addresses. I cap the range at the last device's IP address, meaning that every single address served from the DHCP server is allocated.

Has anybody tried this?

Thanks - Tobias

 

[Cake]

Greets,
How is your wireless access point connected? I was thinking if it (dumb switch/wireless access point) was connected via ethernet cable to a port on your router, you may need to try blocking it somewhere else instead of the wireless section on your router. Maybe parental controls, or something in the lan section.
I think your idea would work though... maybe time consuming though. Can I ask are you not using pfsense? Is it because there is no AC for it yet? I was thinking about building a box myself.